Bridging Ecology and Mental Health (individual and collective) toward holistic understanding of the biosphere.
Provoker of thought.
Husband, dad, son, and friend insanely curious about the human condition.
I wasn’t a football player or team sports guy, but I was a badass skateboarder, break dancer, and bmx-er.
I never went to church. But I read a lot about the worlds’ religions.
I let society, and my dad, talk me into a college major that would get me a job (Fisheries Science), but I always (even now) wanted to study philosophy.
I was not a good student. So I got a PhD to prove everyone wrong.
I quit a tenure-track career to be a stay-at-home-dad to four daughters.
I don’t believe in ‘face time’, so I excel working fewer than 15 hours a week (see the dad thing).
My first marriage ended, partly due to the above.
My second marriage is awesome, mostly due to the above.
I believe we are individuals obligately connected to multiple communities.
I think science is a good tool for measurable, matter-based things.
But I think we need to (re) focus more on the other stuff.
Music helps me do that. So does writing.
Here’s an ‘Introduction’ video: